KDE architecture diagram

[Aleix Pol]

On Fri, Jun 8, 2012 at 4:23 PM, Marco Martin <notmart at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Friday 08 June 2012, Tomaz Canabrava wrote:
>> 'Plasma' and 'Nepomuk - whatever this means' ? those namings are
>> confusing, and if you guys really want a broader audience, you should
>> really make it easy for people that are not on your field to use your
>> software. I understand that technologies must have a name, I'm also an
>> scientist after all, but you will not see a thing about
>> paleobathymetry or stratigraphy in anything that I write if the focus
>> is people outside of my area of knowledge.
>
> yep, she's right. actually SC was never a name to be targetted to the public.
>
> same thing for names of tecnologies (there should be advertized as developer
> tools but never to the end user) so in the ui should never ever appear
> nepomuk, phonon or akonadi for instance.
>
> different discourse for products that are directly in front of the user:
> "plasma desktop" or "amarok" or "gwenview" are more like microsoft word, iOS
> or iTunes
>
> Cheers,
> Marco Martin
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Well many of us probably still see Plasma as a technology.